Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009, 10 am to Noon at EWI – Come celebrate some old-fashioned ideas very relevant in today’s world, like listening to other people’s stories and learning from their experiences. Enjoy making a one-of-a-kind storybook with your own hands as a special gift for someone; and sitting down with a hot cup of Chai and sharing stories and laughter. read more »
October 20, 2009, EWI artists and Marga Fripp will be present at Women Entrepreneurs as Peacemakers at George Mason University
12pm – Catered Lunch and Discussion with Dorothy Tuma, President of Women’s Center for Job Creation, Minnesota and Uganda. WMST has been collaborating with WCFJC since November 2008 with the Bulondo Goat Project and the Mason Community has sponsored 38 goats for women heads of households in Uganda. Dorothy will be presenting slides and telling us about her programs. JC 240K.
2:30pm - “Social Entrepreneurship and the Mason Classroom” panelists TBA JC Meeting Room F
4:30pm – Women Entrepreneurs as Peacemakers Panelists are Dorothy Tuma, President of the Women’s Center for Job Creation (WCFJC), Marga Fripp, President of Entrepreneurship Academy for Artists and Empowered Women International, and Barbara Moller, President of Voices for Global Change and founder of Paper to Pearls for a roundtable discussion about their experience as peace makers promoting self sustainability for women in Uganda and in the United States. JC Meeting Room F.
Marketplace of women’s arts and crafts 1:30pm-4pm
Event sponsored by: African and African‐American Studies, Art History, English, Communications, Sociology and Anthropology, Center for Teaching Excellence, Global Affairs Program, New Century College, and University Life
To RSVP contact: Dr. Vicki Kirsch
Associate Director, Women and Gender Studies
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030
703-993-2897
vkirsch@gmu.edu
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July 23, noon-1:15pm – 7 Winning Strategies to Market Your Art, Generate More Clients and Grow Your Business in Tough Economic Times with Marga Fripp, Plein Air Easton, Talbot County Free Library, 100 W. Dover St., Easton, MD, FREE. Take a break from the mid-day sun and join Marga Fripp, Art Marketing Coach for a dynamic seminar of art marketing strategies and practical approaches to success as an artist. More
Marga Fripp, Art Marketing Coach and EWI president was invited to talk about the business of art at Artomatic. Over 50 artists attended the Artomatic panel on The Art of Doing Business organized and moderated by Jody Walsh, Artist and Marketing Expert. Panelists included Elyse Harrison of the Neptune Gallery, Trudy Van Dyke: Independent Curator, Marga Fripp, Art Marketing Coach and Nancy Prager, WALA Volunteer Attorney.
After the talk I took a tour of Artomatic and I was very impressed and inspired to see so many of the artists we coached and trained being featured at Artomatic: Stephanie Bianco, Edith Graciela Sanabria, Irina Avilova, Sheldon Reiffenstein, Caren Quinn among many others.
Kudos to Caren Quinn for being was selected as Michael Janis: Artomatic Top 10
May 30, 2009 – Charlene McClelland, Director of Retail, and Betty Scott, Education Program Coordinator at Music Center at Strathmore hosted a group of 10 women artists of the EWI for a visit of the Strathmore Mansion and the Music Center.
EWI Women Artists and Our Supporters at Strathmore
Betty Scott, Charlene McClelland and EWI Artist May Al-Souz
Outside in the beautiful Mansion's Garden at Strathmore
Thank you to both Charlene and Betty for giving our students such an extraordinary opportunity to learn first hand how to break into the arts market.